Raspberry PI setup guide

rpi-setup-guide.md

Raspberry PI setup guide

Raspbian setup

• Torrent raspbian jessie lite from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
• Burn the .dmg file on the SD card Using raspberry pi filler http://ivanx.com/raspberrypi/
• Plug the SD card, wifi usb dongle, keyboard and screen, then power up the rpi.

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Network / SSH setup

WiFi setup

^{https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md}

sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

network = {
    ssid="The_ESSID_from_earlier"
    psk="Your_wifi_password"
}

sudo reboot
ifconfig wlan0

mDNS setup

sudo apt-get udpate
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon

hostname setup

sudo raspi-config > Advanded Options > Hostname

SSH setup

sudo raspi-config > Advanced Options / SSH

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Misc packages

GIT setup

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-all

Node.js setup

^{https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions}

wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb 
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb
node -v
sudo npm install -g n

PM2

^{https://github.com/Unitech/pm2#install-pm2}

sudo npm install -g pm2

ZSH / Oh My Zsh setup

^{https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh}

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Node-gyp setup

^{Used to build some modules like node-serialport or node-canvas}

sudo npm install -g node-gyp

If any npm install fail and throw an error mentionning node-gyp, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/21366601

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Listing devices

ls /dev/tty*

An Arduino should look like /dev/ttyUSB0